Bully hires Jocelyn, an Outsider bounty hunter, to kill Skalter Mingus, one of the immunized people. Bull wants the assasination to be aired publicly in order to make an example and discourage the resistance. Jocelyn teams up with Crystal Talongh, another Outsider, and starts looking for Mingus.

Jocelyn and Crystal find Mingus, who gets killed in the fight. But the destruction of the central switchboard prevents the event from being aired over the whole planet, thus ruining Bull's plan.